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| Ken Elias born Glynneath |
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It appears that I am attempting to create something solid and substantial
out of memory, creating a kind of geometry of my earlier life. My
paintings have always had something to say; a story to tell, but during
recent years this narrative has grown more personal. Remembered images
from childhood have developed into recurring images. It is perhaps
unsurprising then, that this has happened at thesame time as I have
found myself returning to live quite near the house where I spent
my childhood and directly opposite the house my grandmother lived
during those early years of the 1950's. My grandmother's home backed
onto a parkland area, where I played as a child and where the Glynneath
Miner's Welfare Hall housed a Cinema or the 'Pictures' as it was known
locally, and where my aunt worked as an usherette. In adulthood, these early locations still exude a kind of resonance and serve repeatedly as places where paintings can happen. It may be said that my revisiting of these early landmarks, where I played freely as a child, has allowed me to take part in another kind of play , a creative form of play that like childhood play is unhampered by the restriction of logic or common sense, but of an unmistakably grown up nature. Reclaiming the landscape of childhood with an adult vision. |
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'Blue
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